DAFNE

This article is about the Italian electron–positron collider. For the French collider DAPHNE, see Détecteur à Grande Acceptance pour la Physique Photonucléaire Expérimentale. For other uses, see Dafne (disambiguation).

DAFNE or DAΦNE (Double Annular Φ Factory for Nice Experiments), is an electron-positron collider at the INFN Frascati National Laboratory in Frascati, Italy. Since 1999 it has been colliding electrons and positrons at a center of mass energy of 1.02 GeV to create phi mesons (φ). 85% of these decay into kaons (K), whose physics is the subject of most of the experiments at DAFNE.

There are five experiments at DAFNE:

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